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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH

Appointments

The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the rank of Pilot Officer:
Dated 28th February, 1944—
NZ 414227 Flight Sergeant Ronald Thomas BARROW.
NZ 421928 Acting-Corporal Frederick Thomas CARDIFF.
NZ 403975 Flight Sergeant Hugh Calder McAFFER.

Promotion

Flight Lieutenant John Bertram Granville BRADLEY to be Acting Squadron Leader (paid). Dated 18th March, 1944.

Transfers

Flying Officer Eric REDSHAW is transferred from the General Duties Branch to the Administrative and Special Duties Branch in his present rank and seniority. Dated 14th February, 1944.
Flying Officer Hew Seton MONTGOMERIE is transferred to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class B, Section I. Dated 27th March, 1944.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH, SECTION II (A.T.C.)

Appointments

The undermentioned are granted Air Training Corps commissions in the rank of Pilot Officer :—
Dated 1st October, 1943: Dudley Leggoe WADE.
Dated 1st January, 1944: Frederick Arnold WATERHOUSE.
Dated 1st February, 1944: James William WRIGHT.

Corrigendum

The notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 111, dated 16th December, 1943, page 1497, under the heading “Equipment Branch, Section II, Group I—Appointments : As Radar Officers”, dated 25th May, 1943, is amended, as far as it relates to NZ 39827 Sergeant Charles John Rayner HOLLAWAY, to read “Dated 1st February, 1943”.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Consular Agent of the French Committee of National Liberation

Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1944.

IT is hereby notified for public information that

Mr. D. G. Sparks
has been appointed Consular Agent in Auckland of the French Committee of National Liberation.
P. FRASER, Minister of External Affairs.

Crown Solicitor appointed

Crown Law Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Lawrence William Willis to be Crown Solicitor at Napier, vice Hugh Butler Lusk (deceased), such appointment to take effect on and from the 28th day of March, 1944.

H. G. R. MASON, Attorney-General.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th March, 1944.

IT is hereby notified that the following appointments have been made :

Trevor James Otway

To be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Albertland, on and from the 14th day of March, 1944.

Eric Wingate Ward

To be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Wellington at Kilbirnie, on and from the 7th day of March, 1944.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 28th March, 1944.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:

Alfred Walter Knapp

To be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Wellington Land District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, on and from the 1st day of April, 1944.

Robert Hogan Bell

To be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Canterbury Land District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, on and from the 1st day of April, 1944.

Sidney Otto Gillard

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1928, on and from the 1st day of April, 1944.

Norman Edward Tod

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1928, on and from the 17th day of February, 1944.

Robert Allan Brydon,
Harold John Craddock Dumbell,
Arthur Blunden Davey,
John Patterson Ewan,
Albert James Hill,
Charles Alan Hercus,
Donald Eric Hockley,
Athol James Kelly,
Stanley Dakin Reynolds,
William Alexander Russell,
John Henry Thornton,
Harry Haydon Townsend,
Edward Nelson Tovey,
Thomas Linton Wright, and
Ngaio Cranstoun Welch

to be Graders for the purposes of the Meat Act, 1939, and for the purposes of the Board of Trade (Meat Grading) Regulations 1943, on and from the 1st day of March, 1944.

George Patrick Shepherd, Esquire,

to be Native Trustee under the Native Trustee Act, 1930, and Under-Secretary for the Native Department, on and from the 14th day of April, 1944.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

The Fruit and Produce Stores Employees’ Labour Legislation Suspension and Modification Order 1944

IN pursuance of the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Labour doth hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Fruit and Produce Stores Employees’ Labour Legislation Suspension and Modification Order 1944.

2. This Order applies to female workers employed on work coming within the scope of the New Zealand (except Westland) Fruit and Produce Stores Employees’ award dated the 11th day of November, 1943, and recorded in 43 Book of Awards 594, and to their employers.

3. The provisions of section 3 of the Factories Amendment Act, 1936, are hereby suspended in respect of the workers referred to in clause 2 hereof, and the provisions of the said award are hereby modified in respect of the employment of such workers to the extent hereinafter provided.

4. Female workers employed packing and sorting fruit and eggs and receiving and preparing flowers for sale may be employed preparing vegetables, and while so employed shall be paid 3d. per hour extra.

5. (a) Female workers employed on any class of store work other than those set out in clause 4 hereof shall be paid not less than the following rates of wages:

For the first six months . . . 2 14 6 per week.
For the second six months . . . 3 1 0 per week.
For the third six months . . . 3 14 6 per week.
And thereafter £3 19s. 6d. per week.

(b) No worker who remains in her present employment shall have her wages reduced by reason of the introduction of the scale set out in subclause (a) hereof.

(c) Female workers who are paid less than the rates of wages prescribed for male workers shall not be required to lift or to carry unassisted any package exceeding 50 lb. in weight.

6. This Order shall come into effect on the day of the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of March, 1944.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Labour.

The Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and its Amendments.—Fixing the Closing-hours of Fruiterers’ Shops within the Combined District of Nelson

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to the Minister of Labour from the occupiers of fruiterers’ shops within the Combined District of Nelson, comprising the City of Nelson and the Town District of Tahunanui, pursuant to section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22:

And whereas he is satisfied that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the said shops within the said combined district:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 32, the Minister of Labour doth hereby direct that on and after the 17th day of April, 1944, all the said shops within the said combined district shall be closed on the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 6.30 p.m. during the months of April, May, June, July, August, and September in each year.

The notice dated 12th May, 1942, fixing the closing-hours of fruiterers’ shops in the Combined District of Nelson, and gazetted on the 14th May, 1942, shall be and is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of March, 1944.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Labour.